c○2009 The Association for Computational Linguistics

c○2009 The Association for Computational Linguistics and The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing

c○2009 The Association for Computational Linguistics and The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing

Proceedings of the 12 th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 30

NAACL HLT 2009 Human Language Technologies : The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

c○2009 The Association for Computational Linguistics and The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing

The Japanese WordNet currently has 51,000 synsets with Japanese entries. In this paper, we discuss three methods of extending it: increasing the cover, linking it to examples in corpora and linking it to other resources (SUMO and GoiTaikei). In addition, we outline our plans to make it more useful by adding Japanese definition sentences to each synset. Finally, we discuss how releasing the corp...